Talk about mixed-nuts-- I was born and raised in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA, by southern parents and grandparents from BOTH sides. They were very proper, so I was raised that way (raised on grits, too). Then, I moved to Georgia and met and married a (these are his words, not mine) true Georgia Boy. Sometimes it's like we talk two different languages in this house. He likes to "grill" his steaks and I "bar-b-que" mine. Just to name a few. He is always telling me to "talk english" ?? It keeps things very funny around here,but I love him for it. Oh, joy, I can hardly wait till we have kids!! Oh, what fun!! Bi-lingual?

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compaired to what lies inside us." R.W.E.

to a single person is a common misunderstanding. When "ya'll" is addressed to a single person, as in "Ya'll come, heanh?" the addressee understands that the invitation is issued to him/her and the whole family. "Yonder," or its variant, "yon" is simply a conservatism which has faded out of Northern dialects. It's still present in German, another conservative lanugage , as "jener," pronounced approximately as "yehner."

according to the food network,barbequing is for slow cooking; grilling is quick cooking outdoors, for those of us who just wanna eat yall.markit's traditional for me to 'burn the meat'.

This is from Dictionary.com.(BTW: I asked some southern friends what they call slow cooking out of doors and they said they called it "smoking" or "smoked meat" usually done in a smoker simular to a barbecue grill only it cooks slower and gives it a "smoked" flavor.)

barbecue

n 1: meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce [syn: barbeque] 2: a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit [syn: barbeque] 3: a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors [syn: barbeque] v : cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest" [syn: cook out]

A grill is what you cook the barbecued meat on, and according to my husband,ours is on fire as we speak..... I hope he didn't mistake our wiener-dogfor a hot dog!!! Gotta go!!

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compaired to what lies inside us." R.W.E.

scw1217 wrote:Putting in my 2 cents (a little late perhaps), BBQ is chicken or pork and served with BBQ sauce. Steak is grilled.

A slab of brisket, barbecued slowly over a mixture of mesquite and apple woods, makes a mighty convincing case for beef BBQ. And a plain roast (or grilled) chicken or piece of pork with BBQ sauce poured on it certainly wouldn't get five culinary stars in Texas.

Our butcher takes chickens and applies a dry BBQ rub, the exact recipe for which he won't divulge under threat, and then smokes them for about 12 hours over a VERY slow fire indeed. Don't need any sauce at all with those suckers.

On the other hand, a steak (on the grill) is something that I have to take care of myself. Suffice it to say: 1.5 inch thick Prime ribeye, four minutes each side over glowing fire, allow to rest for another four minutes while I conjure up a nice Caesar salad and a glass of Merlot. Life is good.

-- PW

-- PW

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"